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 1800's Ephemera 

Highly recommended - a treasure box of images (ed.)! The creator, Mark Forder, modestly writes: "I have scanned in numerous images of papers I have from the late 1800's, such as playbills from the "Black Crook", along with photographs of actresses, etc... Should you have any questions please email me and I'll be more then happy to answer them if I can. "

 Adventures in Motion Pictures 

 ALADIN gateway to online image collections (Washington) 

Click on "Image collections", then click on "BREN", and search the Robert Breen ANTA archive by keyword to select among hundreds of retrievable high-quality images from the archives of the American National Theatre Academy.

 American Ballet Theatre Photo Gallery 

Some superb dance photos from 1940 onwards

 Ballets Russes 

Thumbnail links to members and productions of the famous Diaghilev / Nijinsky company. The rest of the site is splendid, too -- well worth an explore for photos, bibliographies and chronologies of the dance world

 Beijing Opera Page 

Attractive site. Opening page has fine photo of MEI Lanfang (1894-1961) as Xi Shi. Other photos illustrate the main roles in Beijing Opera, leading players, etc. Some masks.

 Biblioteca e Raccolta Teatrale del Burcado 

Rich in resources, and well presented. Worth a virtual visit -- and a real one, if you find yourself in Rome

 Bibliothéque nationale de France: Dèpartement des arts du spectacle 

One of the richest iconographic resources in the world ... a good excuse to visit to Paris, as if you needed one

 Bibliothéque-musèe de la Comèdie française 

The information page contains three small sample images: the stage and auditorium, a late 17thC print, and a page from one of the famous registers

 Bridgeman Art Library  (Recommended by Rachel Dunk.)

Amongst this comprehensive source of fine art images, we have a wonderful selection of works entitled "Theatre, ballet, actors, plays, opera & scenery" and a separate section devoted entirely to Shakespeare.

 CARTHALIA - Theatres on Postcards  (Recommended by Andreas Praefcke.)

A collection of postcards of theatre buildings and concert halls worldwide

 Ceský Krumlov, the baroque Castle Theatre 

Oh, the joy! From the heart of old Europe, a site devoted with love and affection to the baroque court theatre in all its glory. Mouth watering. If you can't hop on a plane, hit that mouse ...

 collection of 19th century theatrical postcards and photo cabinets for sale  (Recommended by Robert J. Foster.)

There are approximately 1,000 photo postcards and over 150 photo cabinets of actors and actressess from the late 19th and early 20th century pictured.

 Ertè Museum of Fashion and Theatre Designs 

Delicious... Art-Deco classics

 Federal Theatre Project images 

This online presentation includes over 3,000 images of items selected from the Federal Theatre Project Collection at the Library of Congress. Featured here are stage and costume designs, still photographs, posters, and scripts for productions of Macbeth and The Tragical History of Dr. Faustus as staged by Orson Welles, and for Power, a topical drama of the period. The Federal Theatre Project was one of five arts-related projects established during the first term of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt under the Works Progress Administration (WPA)

 Footlight Notes 

John Culme's highly entertaining mix of pre-1920 photographs, postcards, sheet music covers and magazines, etc. - some 25,000 items in all. Worth a visit. 'Footlight Notes is about popular entertainment during a period of extraordinary activity in the history of the theatre: the 1850s to the 1920s.'

 FREEDOM MUSIC  (Recommended by Kalevi Ukkola.)

MUSICAL - OPERA

 Georama's guide to Greek theatre sites 

Notes and images. Don't overlook the clickable image map on the first page. A site for sore eyes

 Guildhall Library, London 

Astonishing database of 20,000 images of olde London. You can view and order copies online. Here be real classics, some 400 years old

 Kabuki for Everyone 

Well-illustrated site with images, videos and sound. Includes a sequence illustrating Kabuki make-up. You can practically smell the greasepaint. Details of current Kabuki performances in Japan, too. English and Japanese versions available (try selecting a Japanese font in your favorite browser)

 Karagoz 

Colourful depictions of stock characters from traditional theatre. Sometimes slow to load (the site is in Turkey), but persevere ...

 Karagoz - Alpay Ekler's site 

Some fine illustrations, plus transcriptions and music recordings

 Kim Crow is a busy actress, director and voice talen  (Recommended by Kim Crow.)

Kim Crow -her resumes, demos, musings and scrapbook of a lifetime in the business as an' athlete of the heart.' "Wit" "Travels With My Aunt""Playing for Time"

 King Lear production photographs from Stratford-on-Avon 

These digital images originally appeared in The Cambridge King Lear CD:ROM: Text and Performance History Archive, edited by Christie Carson and Jacky Bratton, and represent performances of 'King Lear' by the RSC 1976-1993.

 Korean mask drama 

 Kurt Weill Homepage 

 Lennox-Boyd Collection 

The private collection of English mezzotints acquired by Christopher Lennox-Boyd since 1968. Strong on late 18th and 19th centuries. See especially the online exhibition devoted to Garrick (page closed temporarily, we'll keep checking)

 Library of Congress: American Memory Collections and Topics 

The link will take you to "American Memory Collections". Includes photos from the Federal Theatre Project, early motion pictures, the variety stage, celebrities -- or search by keyword ("actors", "theatre", etc.). Rich collection, well worth browsing. Some European libraries could learn a thing or two about generosity here ...

 London Theater 1660-1800 

Useful collection of illustrations to accompany ongoing collaborative classroom project. (Not always available)

 Lyon : Puppets Museum 

A fine image of the Lyon Punch on the title page.

 Martinka Magic Museuum Antique Magic Posters, Houdini  (Recommended by Ted Bogusta.)

Contains historical info on early magicians and other performers.

 Max Reinhardt Archives 

A selection online from he Archives' 14,000+ photographs and negatives, which constitute a significant visual repository of prominent actors and actresses as well as a visual record of twentieth-century advances in scene and costume design. The Archives also boasts a photo scrapbook collection containing 5,500 images of nineteenth-century German actors and actresses.

 Melbourne, Australia: Performing Arts Museum 

Representative images from the holdings in theatre,circus, dance, opera. Please note the restrictions on use specified on the entry page.

 Michael Booth Collection 

Paintings, posters, playbills and costume designs, mostly 19thC British, from the collection the scholar who retired in 1996.

 Myanmar: Puppet theatre 

Fine collection of large colour photos, available as thumbnails on title page of an official government tourist site. Arresting ...

 Mystere dou Jour dou jugement 

Miniatures from the 14th century Besançon manuscript, back in the days when you had to walk the web, and the sites were called monasteries

 National Theatre Design Archive 

Published by the US Institute for Theatre Technology, as part of Project 2000, there are designs for costume, stage and lighting. Note, please, the copyright notice on the first page, which forbids duplication "electronically or on stage" without the written permission of the designer. The site layout is superb

 Perseus image sequences 

Click on "Theaters" for a sequence of 30 Greek theatres.

 Peter Oliver's Clown Collection 

Self-extracting Flash movie (requires no additional software). Download to your hard disk and double-click to run. It's safe -- prepared by the VL-Theatre editor!

 Photo Gallery for The Shakespeare Theatre  (Recommended by SG.)

Beautiful color photos from our innovative and stunning productions of plays by Shakespeare and other classical playwrights.

 Proofsheets of theater publicity photos by Michal Daniel  (Recommended by Michal Daniel.)

A unique and growing on-line collection of publicity photos by Michal Daniel from the Public Theater (NYC), Guthrie Theater (Minneapolis), and others.

 Quebec: Un fou dans une poche 

200 years of early French-Canadian theatre, well illustrated

 Richard Finkelstein's portfolio 

A working designer's portfolio, linked by play title.

 SBTD Picture Gallery 

Stage and costume designs from the Society of British Theatre Designers. Follow the link to GALLERY. Also available -- report and pix from the 1999 Prague Quadrennial, and details of current exhibition at the Theatre Museum, London

 Shakespeare and the players 

Shakespearean theatre illustrated by postcards. Fascinating and unusual project

 

 Shakespeare Illustrated 

19thC paintings and other resources.

 

 Somerset Maugham Collection of Theatrical Paintings  (Recommended by Louise Ray.)

Images from the Somerset Maugham collection bequeathed to the National Theatre.

 

 Spanish Golden Age 

16th and 17th C theatre photos, models, drawings; a visual tour of the home of Lope de Vega, and links to the vast collection of online Spanish plays. Maintained by Vern Williamson, who deserves a medal.

 

 The Broadway Theatre Archive  (Recommended by Basil Hero.)

Written about in The New York Times, The Broadway Theatre Archive has the finest collection of theatre/broadway plays adapted for television since the 1950's. Within the collection is Death of A Salesman w/ Lee J. Cobb, The Iceman cometh w

 

 The Bunraku 

A detailed Bunraku site with plenty of information and an animated image

 

 The Cleveland Press Shakespeare Photographs 1870-1982: Photographs from the plays of William Shakespeare on stage, screen, television, opera, and ballet.  (Recommended by Lesley Jorbin.)

This unique site is the ONLY image site to present photographs from Shakespeare productions, in a searchable database; it may be searched by play title or play grouping (tragedies, comedies, etc) or keyword.

 

 The Development of Stage Spectacle  (Recommended by Frank Mohler.)

Fascinating animations, plus database of early stage machinery

 

 The History of Costume by Braun & Scheider 

Vast range of neatly arranged thumbnails linked to 100k graphics, in colour, from the mid-19thC handbook of historical costume. Go dizzy with the morphing on the front page

 

 The Nineteenth Century London Stage 

University of Washington School of Drama: several dozen scanned images now available, hundreds to follow

 

 

 Theaterwetenschap 

An experiment in VRML representation of the group's theatre. Follow link to Nieuws and then to Virtueel kirjkje. ('Dit is de Web site van de leerstoel Theaterwetenschap van de Faculteit der Geesteswetenschappen aan de Universiteit van Amsterdam')

 

 Theatre Ephemera  (Recommended by Rodney Higginbotham.)

A continually growing archive of theatre iconography

 

 Theatron: Roman Permanent Theatres 

3-D computer models of the Theatre of Pompey; with links to similar ventures involving Greek, Roman and Restoration theatres.

 

 USA International Ballet Competition 

Profiles the work of over 1300 dancers and includes a formal gallery as well as photos of many of the dancers.

 

 York Cycle of Mystery Plays  (Recommended by Steve Wright.)

Solid documentation of the York cycle produced in Toronto in 1998, with links to the full texts, many photos, etc

 

 Ýstanbul Þehir Tiyatrosu / Metropolitan Theater of Istanbul  (Recommended by Can Dogan.)

vitual theater museum / picture of hundreds plays / oldest theater of Turkey / 1914 onwards